Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who poses as a satisfied customer or an enthusiastic gambler to dupe bystanders into participating in a swindle.
- intransitive verb To act as a shill.
- intransitive verb To act as a shill for (a deceitful enterprise).
- intransitive verb To lure (a person) into a swindle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A variant of
sheal . - To sound; shrill.
- Shrill.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb Prov.ng. To put under cover; to sheal.
- transitive verb Obs. or Prov. Eng. To shell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A person paid to
endorse a product favourably, while pretending to beimpartial . - noun An accomplice at a confidence trick during an auction or gambling game.
- verb pejorative To
promote orendorse in return forpayment , especiallydishonestly . - verb To put under cover; to
sheal .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb act as a shill
- noun a decoy who acts as an enthusiastic customer in order to stimulate the participation of others
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Post have so much more merit when they don't use the term shill or phrase: partisan hack.
Drudge Retort afkabl2 2010
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The idea that the White House might try to infiltrate the press corps with a shill is a chilling thought in this democracy, but this is the administration that has been caught paying “journalists” and generating its own prefabricated “news reports” to distribute to TV stations too naïve to recognize the attempt at propaganda.
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Watch Senator Al "Kick-Ass" Franken wipe up the floor with this health-care-lobby shill from the Hudson Institute who claimed that universal healthcare would increase medical bankruptcies.
Boing Boing 2009
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Don't take offense to that comment, I have just always wanted to use the word shill in a sentance.
From The Editors Desk: Concerning Links kludge 2007
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His current mission, as ranking shill, is to 3-card-Monty the herd.
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I used the word shill in reference to the checkered career of S.
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This kind of leadership is dangerous and has one and only one description - facism Report Abuse Darryl "BOOM BOOM" Issa is a long term shill for corporate interests.
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The definition of the word shill is someone being paid.
Sun Journal top news 2010
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They love to see me characterized as a shill and a geeky sportswriter who was always picked last in pickup games.
unknown title 2009
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I used the word shill as a hat tip to said Mr Singer’s habit of taking money from the industries he is paid to cover for.
bilby commented on the word shill
"Rosa Luxemburg sez: “The first revolutionary act is to call things by their true names.�? Well then, here goes: Whether we—or Lord Obama—choose to admit it or not, the vaunted “American way of life�? was built on a nearly exterminated indigenous population, the African slave trade, and all those killed in places like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Southeast Asia, Central America, the Middle East, etc. It was built on stolen land using stolen oil. Our way of life was built on terror and it is maintained by terror: e.g. cops, prisons, military, and the psychological oppression of propaganda.
The exalted Pope of Hope is merely shilling old Kool-Aid in shiny new recyclable bottles. Until we act, we remain accomplices to his global and domestic crimes."
- Mickey Z., 'Obama Nation Upholds US Terror', 15 Jan 2009, foreignpolicyjournal.com.
January 20, 2009
100000232338334 commented on the word shill
"'I've never been a bouncer before,' Charles said conversationally. 'I was the youngest son of a minor baronet, so I've had to make my own way, and I've done many things. I've worked as a bartender before, and many years ago I was a shill for a whorehouse. Stood outside, trumpeted the wares of the strumpets--that's a neat phrase, isn't it?--threw out men who got too rough with the whores. I suppose that's the same as being a bouncer."-Dead as a Doornail, by Charlaine Harris
May 19, 2011